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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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GeoIP for mapping IPs to locations. Or if you’re going to cache something out of the database, simulate the effects and tally up the hits so you can justify spending time worrying about the invalidation policy, etc. have serious security problems and seem to be able to weather a small PR storm. Pretty standard.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors.

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